#again - I usually love the man's work

[saltpepperbeard]

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[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[delborovic]

Commissions from a live stream I did earlier this summer! These belong to:

@tafferling - @vaultieglass @demonsabbath - @cloudbureiku @romulus-ac - @geneticghost

Much thanks to all the above and everyone who joined in to watch!

[devilsskettle]

i've watched a lot of good films lately in an attempt to catch up with a bunch of movies that have come out recently, but talk to me was the best movie i've seen in a LONG time

[i-spilled-my-soup]

i just remembered how messed up the ovid telling of hades and persephone is . god

[vinceaddams]

I sure do love to go to the thrift store and acquire things!! Today I got a broken (?) little wooden music box, a couple pieces of fabric (one dark pink cotton jacquard and one dark brown and gold sari silk) and also a plate with a picture of the Hartland covered bridge on it. That's the longest covered bridge in the world, and I've walked across it, and now I can eat sandwiches off it's monochromatic blue image.

[fenharel]

*threatens todd with a bat* there is a good game hidden beneath all this jank todd i can see it. why did you insist on adding all these empty planets everywhere todd? why?! why the forced focus on exploration when we already always wanted to explore your games without you forcing us?!

[cinnamon-notes]

i can't sleep :c

[skzhua]

I'll be posting a Min Ho one-shot tonight because I might not be able to post the eighth episode of "just a lost puppy" until Monday/Tuesday but we'll see! Look forward to it please~

Update: It's like 3am where I live and I work tomorrow so I'll have to post it another time 😭

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I was falling asleep because it's 4:30 in the morning but then a friend that I have a mild crush on texted me and asked what horror movies corresponds to which areas at camp, and clearly Climbing Wall is Vertigo, Aquatics is Jaws and Ecology-Conservation is The Birds, (these were her assignments) but she wanted to know whether Blair Witch fit Scoutcraft (basic scouting skills) or Handicraft (arts and crafts) more, and I said Handicraft because of the figurine things, then she asked what Scoutcraft would be, and full disclosure, I like horror movies but I don't watch a lot of them. I'm picky. Because I don't like gore or zombies and I have anxiety so it's difficult. Okay. So I literally Googled "outdoor horror movies" and tried to find one that I recognized, and thankfully Midsommar was on that list and I've seen and enjoyed Midsommar, so that's what I said. The only other horror movies I can remember seeing are Cabin in the Woods (masterpiece but doesn't fit) and one I can't remember the name of but it's about a video game and has Frankie Muniz and the guy that played Mary Lightly in Psych. And tbh, most of my horror movies knowledge comes from parody episodes of Psych. Especially the Hitchcock episode. I only knew Vertigo because of Psych. This post was a whole lot of inconsequential nonsense, but I get a pass because it's 4:30am and I'm talking to a cool girl.

[ronithesnail]

When i say art is less about the quality of the thing itself and more about the impact on its audience (a very cliche statement yes i know), i mean like an iconic tv show is less about the quality of the actual show and more about how feral it makes the fanbase

[doctorjohcoy]

manhating dyke ancestors possess me every time i hear about a man like that <- (has known and heard about men like that entire life from women in my life)

[androideql]

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[newtafterdark]

Okay, I gotta write this somewhere because it has not left my brain since yesterday.

There's a pretty big channel on german youtube hosted by a man who mainly focuses on reporting on the questionable work of german politicians, as well as general politics. I genuinely enjoy his work and it's important to have a guy like him in the broad media space we have on german youtube.

But his recent video on body positivity did not sit completely right with me.

I agree on his point that body neutrality is what we need, with folks being able to simply exist and not being torn down for not meeting specific beauty standards. His disability is visible (he is missing an eye) and I understand the anger of how much of his young years were a social nightmare because children AND adults are awful about things like that.

But him getting just as angry about folks with big bodies who just want to exist as such? Based on a TV interview with a (weight) doctor & a big lady he was watching? Because he didn't like it that the big lady was disagreeing with a random doctor?

I understand that this might come across as me as reading too much meanspiritness into his video, but still-

I do not care for doctors on TV. Especially when they so broadly speak about fat bodies. Treating all folks with fat bodies in the way of "change this for your health" on TV is not helping.

Those of us who can loose the weight they gained out of laziness alone and no other factor, fine, they can change things & lose weight as they please.

But there are so many factors on people being fat that got absolutely glossed over by this video… and if you focus on the body positivity movement, you can not ignore those parts.

Many doctors are biased. They will assume you lie to them when you don't lose weight from the food & exercise plan they gave you.

Hell, in my case it took doctors well into my mid-20 to figure out that I have a thyroid issue and THAT is why I always been as big as I am.

Some of us have disabilities, visible and invisible - from bone issues to picky eating from stomach issues, specific medication they must not stop taking, etc… where it just leads to loosing weight is not easy or even possible.

And then, of course, there is the money issue. Global current inflation aside, even previously it is hard in many parts of the world to feed yourself a balanced diet with the little money you do have at your disposal.

… … I just didn't like the whole thing of "if you are fat, you are not healthy, stop fishing for compliments online".

His whole thing of making fun of him being "cishet" at the start of the video doesn't help when a lot of queer folks to develop eating disorders because of general AND in-community relationships to who is "supposed" to have what body shape.

How dare gay and trans folks find comfort in being big and live a happy life like that? How dare we find big bodies attractive?

Just... man.

I am sitting here with the vibe of "if you're fat, there is nothing to compliment there" from his video and that just makes me feel nauseous, as the folks who watch him just nod along bc they already agree with his other takes.

I personally find it simply a rancid take to deny fat folks a bit of positivity in their lives despite their appearance because you haven't found some with your own.

My man, we are ALL fighting for crumbs here.

You are usually so good at going after the people who are holding the bread.

Why aren't you this time?

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

If you already got this from someone and you just haven't answered yet pls ignore, but if no one else asked i want to add klinger+charles for the relationship bingo ask meme

ok I’m getting to this late as FUCK but PLEASE nobody ever hesitate to send me something for an ask game if I get one ask on a topic I will go YIPPEE and if I get 20 asks on the same topic I will go YIIIIIPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Anyhow you're indeed the only one around here who shows outside interest in our rarepair insanity, a boon I will remember as long as I live btw. Mx. Smoking Marlene Dietrich I owe you the WORLD

TRIPLE BINGO because they are EVERYTHING. to me.

It’s funny. This is the one duo where I almost do just want to post the bingo and leave it at that. Part of me wants to tell people about this ship SO bad, to give novel-length explanations and justifications and theses. But the other part of me is like you know what. You either Get It or you don’t.

Anyways there are 10000 things to say about Them but one is: I specifically did not fill in “gay af to have a sworn rival” even though it cost me another bingo because one of the most fascinating things about the interactions between these two is that they actually do not have a mutually adversarial relationship--even though that’s what writers usually do with two characters on diametrically opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum. 

I’ve been thinking about this a bit because I’ve seen people say things like, “It’s great what a funny duo they turned into when they started out hating each other, haha.” And I get why one would think like this but IMO it’s actually not the case! Charles acts more familiar with Max over time because he does that with everyone--

(Though he’s racist towards Max throughout, of course. Because Charles’ racism never goes away. You know that right. MASH fandom I am putting my hands on your shoulders and asking: You know that, right? I keep seeing people talk about Charles having a character arc and a redemption arc so I’m just. I’m just making sure.)

--but Max has actually been pretty nice to him right from the start, back when Charles’ relationship with basically every character was antagonistic. As soon as s6e13 he tells Charles how similar they are, how they should work together to try and get away from the war, how they’re “soulmates”. Even after Charles insults him, he straight up says, “I’m on your side, Major”, which I’m pretty sure remains one of the nicest things someone canonically says to Charles, ever. Just one scene, but emblematic of a greater whole, of quite a few future scenes where Max gamely engages with Charles even when it puts him in unpleasant situations.

And of course, the motivation the show usually gives, on those occasions when it thinks about Maxwell’s motivations at all, is a simple throwaway “Well Charles is paying him / giving him some other material benefit, so obviously Klinger will be his kicked dog! You all know how Middle Eastern people are! We are a groundbreakingly progressive show btw.”

But man. Fuck that shit. This is far afield of my original point but the thing is, Max’s interactions with Charles are often the most egregious exempla of every way the later seasons fucked over my girl here. It almost seems useless to try to analyze any of Max’s actions after a certain point from a Watsonian perspective, when the Doylist reading of the show being too racist and stupid to do anything coherent with him is the ultimate explanation, and sometimes the only explanation you can even come up with, because shit just makes NO fucking sense in-universe. 

But unfortunately I’m a stupid cringe ass fanfic writer/reader, and I love this character, and Max already gets so little screentime compared to the main protagonists, and I don’t want to just ignore him because of the decisions of writers who didn’t care about him.

(That’s the entire reason I started shipping this stupid thing in the first place, btw. I just wanted to read some fanfic where Max is the main character and idk if you’ve noticed but if it weren’t for AO3 user stateofintegrity and their ~problematic cringe ship~, the pickings would be pretty fucking slim.)

So I like to pretend there’s a better reason for Maxwell going from “Major Burns I hate you so fucking much I am going to kill us both with this fucking grenade” to the equivalent of a tumblr blog responding to pathetic anon hate with “are we about to have sex”. After all, if you’re going to write Maxwell yourself, get inside his head and all, then you also have to account for why he tolerates all the OTHER characters’ racism towards him in later seasons, too. 

And the messy problematic reasoning I come up with is that Max is at heart the kindest and also most emotionally intelligent character on the show, and even the liberalized version of the 1950s our story is set in is a systemically bigoted universe that is all he’s ever known and experienced, and he’s certain these are good people, really, when it matters. And being emotionally intelligent, and generally intelligent too for that fucking matter, and observant and insightful, he can tell there’s a big difference between Frank and Charles, and perhaps less of a difference, even, between Charles and Hawkeye. Maybe when you watch things from Hawkeye’s POV, the ideological and moral differences between him and Charles are huge, but maybe if you were in Max’s POV instead there wouldn’t be quite as much of a distinction between them. I don’t know! I don’t know. Just some ideas, I don’t know. 

Of course getting into fucking. internalized racism and such is pretty uncomfy and exhausting shit. And that’s not even touching all the gender stuff my girl has going on. You start to see why nobody wants to get into this character’s head much. But I do :3 And I do honestly think sometimes the most effective way to do that is to look at the Messiest Ship In All Of MASH (TM). As I’ve talked about before from the Charles angle, I love this ship precisely because of its Problems, because they’re problems that exist anyways for both characters, and having the two of them interact makes the problems impossible to ignore, so they maybe finally get to be dealt with. I mean, I just don’t think the optimal resolution to Charles and Max’s racism-laden interactions is that Charles goes back home to a big opulent house and Max struggles to save up to buy a used car in After M*A*S*H. That is not super satisfying. to me. 

This post got derailed to hell but I think what I was trying to say is that Max treats Charles SO much better than that bastard man deserves and I would at least like to see something come of it, for the love of--

[dirt-str1der]

If majima just calmly stands behind saejima he would be completely obscured from view , have you guys ever thought of that ?